Just stumbled upon something really cool by complete accident! Maybe I should be ashamed to call myself an <ahem> “short film expert” and not have heard of this since it’s in its 10th year, but Fluxus is an online film festival based out of Brazil that combines museum exhibition of short films and installations with a sophisticated online exhibition experience. What that means for us who don’t live in São Paulo is that 40 current, high quality festival-circuit films are online right this moment to watch!

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Still from Bastien Dubois’ Madagascar.

This is not your normal wishy-washy, un-curated online collection mind you, these 40 films: 16 live-action narratives, 14 animations, 7 experimental films, and 3 documentaries, were culled from 1,200 submissions, meaning you get to see some of the most decorated short films on the festival circuit today. Many of these films I know by reputation as they’ve been racking up prestigious honors and awards, but did not imagine I would get a chance to see anytime soon; animations like Madagascar and Mei Ling, or live-action films like Edmund Yeo’s Love Suicides. If one signs up, it is possible to grade, rank and create playlists with the films, which lead to the experimental short Bites of Skin, being declared the audience choice winner.

Those would be my initial choices for getting started, but I’m just getting started myself. As always feel free to use the comments lend us your thoughts and help us all know which films to watch!

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